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These guys were so fun and nice! After they saw me snapping this picture while I was drinking wine in a café in Paris, they asked me where I was from. I said, Chicago and they said "OH CHICAGO!" and I said, "OH PARIS!" It was a good moment.
The title is taken from the Elliott Smith lyric for the song "Between the Bars"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5g-91mwiNs
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This was such a money shot, in my opinion. I love the expression he has. I can’t tell if it’s boredom or personal angst…either for something trivial or something much more.
His visage is further complimented by the silhouette of a woman behind his face…probably his mother, looking in the opposite direction.
Street photography, India, 2016
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Edit: Ranked at #196 @ Flickr Explorer on September 11th 2008 :D
Type Experiment #1 and Type Experiment #2
From Elliott Smith - I Can't Answer You Anymore (watch on YouTube)
Actually a B-Side.
I pretty much f*cked up, instead of "somebody" I wrote "someone"... too late.
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Um lado B do Elliott Smith - I Can't Answer You Anymore (assista no YouTube)
Caguei ali onde diz "someone", era pra estar escrito "somebody", mas percebi tarde demais.
And I felt I was on fire with the things I could have told you, I just assumed that you eventually would ask. And I wouldn’t have to bring up my so badly broken heart, and all those months I just wanted to sleep. And the spring it did come slowly, I guess it did it’s part, my heart has thawed and continues to beat…- Bright Eyes
I took this picture when I was just starting out in photography.
This picture represents loneliness to me. We have all gone through phases of loneliness and doubt for one reason or another.
I took the photo at this perspective to show no faces, only a “sea” of legs that continuously pass you by. Perhaps this is what the homeless see every day.
The title of this photo is taken from a powerful song by Elliott Smith, called “Stained Glass Eyes”.
Well, I fought through a short roll of 120 and 12 clicks later knew weather or not this old beat up TLR works or not and it certainly does. While I mistakenly shot the 160ISO roll as 400ISO film it sill came out just fine really. Well enough to know that things are functioning well and there are no light leaks around anywhere. Now I can calm down and focus on getting some better shots with it. Get a feel for what the camera can do well and all that. I will share more here soonish.
im not sure what is going on with this green exactly, i darkened it up a bit after the scan and went a bit too dark i think..
i can't decide which i like better
sunshine, been keeping me up for days
there is no night time, it's only a passing phase
and i feel pretty, pretty enough for you
i felt so ugly before, i didn't know what to do
sometimes is all i feel up to now
but it's not worth it to you
cause you gotta get out somehow
it's the destruction that you require to feel
like somebody wants you, someone that's more for real
sunshine, been keeping me up for days
there is no night time, only a passing phase
and i'll feel pretty another hour or two
i felt so ugly before, i didn't know what to do
ugly before
--pretty (ugly before)
by elliott smith
april 30, 2008
i got an email one afternoon, around 4pm, from the owner of lit, asking me if i wouldn't mind coming down to shoot a small, 'secret' show by elliott smith that night. i grabbed my camera and ran. the basement of lit holds about 100 people crammed in tight. there was no stage, just the floor and a chair and a mike. everyone was sitting on the floor, and was reverentially quiet.
sad to say he barely got through an entire song. i could actually smell him from where i sat, and it smelled like a bar at last call. his girlfriend had to physically support him to get him to the chair. it was a long way from the last time i had seen him, on the xo tour, with quasi. that was exquisite. this, i was just happy to commune with him, albeit briefly, if only to remember how much his music meant to me, and how good it was when he played it well. we were all just really happy to be there.
Unknown camera and lens
Kodak T-Max 400
My sad attempt to mimic the Seattle photographer Charles Peterson. In order to get rear curtain flash I would put the flash unit partly on the hot shoe, start a long exposure, at some point push the flash all the way on so it would go off, then end the exposure.
Now I feel changed around and instead falling down
I'm standing up the morning after
I'm in love with the world through the eyes of a girl
Who's still around the morning after.
Morning had to come
You'll be walking in the sun
Living in the day
But last night i was about to throw it all away.
I finally made it. I'm not sure what I was expecting. We passed by it so many times that it became a part of the scenery. I had trouble imagining that you had once stood there, laughed there, breathed there. What a strange concept of place. It's all so different now. Every second it changes and there's another stranger walking by, unassuming. I'm thankful for the things you've given me, but it's hard to know where to place them in my life. I'm always learning a lesson, ever-changing. But you're not, you're always going to remain the same. Thank you for growing with me. Even if it's all my own perspective. Thank you. Thank you.
I took a candid shot of this man in 2012 inside a DC metro.
At that time, I was just starting out with photography…with my iPhone 4S of all cameras!! Great camera, btw. All of my shots here are with an iPhone, but the 4S is very near and dear to me because of some quality i@ages I was able to get.
Anyways, I went on a photo walk with the hopes to get some great street photography photos.
The day was overcast, perfect for photography, especially great for street. I was happy to sit across this man on the metro and take a picture. It wasn’t the most challenging shot, but something about this man resonated with me.
The title of this picture is taken from the song “Alameda” by Elliott Smith.
Thank you for cutting the top of his head off! Still a cool picture, though.
I think this was in Detroit.
polaroid of the elliott smith memorial/solutions store wall in silverlake {los angeles, ca}. this is probably one of my favourite polaroids that i've ever taken which was actually an "accidentally" good one. i took it from my car window without looking through the viewfinder.
elliott smith's last show in nyc.
i got an email one afternoon, around 4pm, from the owner of lit, asking me if i wouldn't mind coming down to shoot a small, 'secret' show by elliott smith that night. i grabbed my camera and ran. the basement of lit holds about 100 people crammed in tight. there was no stage, just the floor and a chair and a mike. everyone was sitting on the floor, and was reverentially quiet.
sad to say he barely got through an entire song. i could actually smell him from where i sat, and it smelled like a bar at last call. his girlfriend had to physically support him to get him to the chair. it was a long way from the last time i had seen him, on the xo tour, with quasi. that was exquisite. this, i was just happy to commune with him, albeit briefly, if only to remember how much his music meant to me, and how good it was when he played it well. we were all just really happy to be there.
This wall was used as a backdrop for Elliott Smith's album "Figure 8". Since he died, fans have been paying tribute here. I was humbled to be here.
This drawing is mainly focused on Radiohead and Thom Yorke and I decided to do that because the music of Radiohead really helped to make Christpher O'Riley as known and loved as he is today.
Peppered thru out the rest of the art are references to other song writers, or bands that Christopher O'Riley will be performing the music of.
Most of the nods to these artists are in text, but a few of them are more visual and I was glad to work that sort of thing in... especially in the short amount of time I had to work.
Long story short, this concert was a long time in the making and almost did not happen. I left myself on constant call just in case it did end up coming together... when it did, I got the call and went into art fiend mode, working super fast to make what is pretty much the only promotional piece for the show.
And to think, it is so, so, so close to actually getting to make something for Radiohead... and for me, that is pretty awesome!!
XO
you once talked to me about love and you painted pictures of a
never-neverland and I could've gone to that place
but I didn't understand
I didn't understand
I didn't understand
RIP Elliott Smith
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"Outside the Solutions! speaker repair shop on Sunset Boulevard, a makeshift memorial to Smith was assembled by fans on Wednesday evening. Amid assorted notes from fans, photographs, scribbled lyrics, memorabilia, and several dozen candles were empty bottles of Christian Brothers brandy and Johnnie Walker Red, a tiny lapel pin printed with the world 'Happiness,' and a picture of Smith emblazoned with the slogan 'HERO.' The broad facade of the store, with its bold red and blue stripes, served as the background for the cover of Smith's 2000 album Figure 8. Fans have begun scrawling messages to Smith between the stripes on the wall: 'I'm damaged bad at best. You are deeply missed,' read one such message." - Will Bryant